Hmm... good question. When I try it, SBCL just hangs. I can interrupt it with C-c in a term window, but it never returns. A simple "cat /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/rx_bytes" works just fine. This is with SBCL 1.0.17 on Fedora 8 (2.6.25.11 kernel).

findinglisp wrote:Hmm... good question. When I try it, SBCL just hangs. I can interrupt it with C-c in a term window, but it never returns. A simple "cat /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/rx_bytes" works just fine. This is with SBCL 1.0.17 on Fedora 8 (2.6.25.11 kernel).

I think this is a bug, and a known issue for the sbcl people. In fact, I have a recollection of reading something about this and sbcl-devel a few months ago. I have searched throught the archives and found this,

smithzv wrote:I think this is a bug, and a known issue for the sbcl people. In fact, I have a recollection of reading something about this and sbcl-devel a few months ago. I have searched throught the archives and found this,